Tag: ethics
With frivolous NPE patent suits clogging courts, counsel’s diligence and ethics suffer
U.S. patent litigation is big business. Billion-dollar judgments, readily available litigation financing, and favorable venues and lax filing standards mean between three and four thousand suits are f...
A Blackbird in Many Forms
You might recall a few months ago I wrote about Blackbird Technologies, an NPE with a novel approach to patent litigation. Blackbird is a company owned by lawyers. It buys patents from patent owne...